The five in the afternoon Reports about Coronavirus at the White House have returned, and President Donald Trump says he knows exactly what the summer recovery needs: more Trump, less scientists.
In this spring’s first incarceration, Trump was accompanied in briefings through the government’s maximum-capacity public officials. The demonstration was canceled after Trump’s concept of using a deadly disinfectant or high-powered ultraviolet light as a friend as treatments, and leadership turned to talk about economic reopening.
Now, with the virus returning to entire areas of the United States and the death toll in the country exceeding 150,000, briefings are announced again, to shape an audience desperate to understand a relentless pandemic.
This time, Trump, who does not like to calculate the highlight, directed them as a one-man show, explaining that he is the custodian of knowledge of the coronavirus lacheck that has been passed directly through experts. “They (me) give … everything you know at the time,” he said last week, “and I’ll report.”
For starters, the president could be the world’s least credible koro of information about coronavirus. Two in three Americans don’t believe what Trump says about the epidemic, and for wise reasons. In his tireless efforts to alleviate a crisis that has become an existential threat to his re-election, he persists in empty cries, throws pointless statistics and sells miraculous cures that are dubious and, at worst, harmful.
Americans who relied on the White House as a source of data on coronaviruses have become, as a group, to minimize the importance of the epidemic, according to a study through Pew Reseek Cinput, and behave in some way that the largest tragic friend fuels the virus to spread.
In the first briefing of the summer season, Trump took on a new tone, acknowledging frankly last week that the epidemic “will probably worsen before it improves.”
On Tuesday, however, things temporarily derailed when the president quoted a Houston doctor who, by selling extravagant COVID-1 theories, also affiliates the gynecological sleep disorders of sex with demons and witches. Even when Trump retwed a video with the doctor, social media corporations rushed to remove him from his sites.
There’s obviously a right way to inform the public on the latest science-based findings about the virus, and do so with the imprimatur of the federal government’s executive branch, but without all this nonsense. One good idea considered and abandoned during internal White House discussions was to resume the briefings, but simply have them handled by experts at the Department of Health and Human Services.
A clique of scientists that the public has come to master and respect: adding to Dr. Anthobig apple Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease expert; Dr. Robert Redfield, Head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Deborah Birx, Coordinator of the White House Working Group on Coronavirus; and Dr. Stephen Hahn, head of the Food and Drug Administration, can also talk and answer questions. Such an experience gets the highest logical confidence ratings from Democrats and Republicans.
The more Americans perceive and believe in the harsh realities of this highly contagious disease, the more precautions are taken – dressed in masks, social isolation, handwashing – to support control until a vaccine arrives.
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